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Cami 🐻

@pouchprints.bsky.social

November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM

Hobo Joe

@hobojoe.bsky.social

Circling back on this one!

The Ghost of Booker T. Washington @bookersghost.bsky.social · Jun 16

Saving this so I can circle back on June 24 and enjoy your socialist tears when he defeats Mamdani.

leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Jun 16

there are a lot of reasons to not rank cuomo. he's a serial sexual harasser, he covered up nursing home covid deaths, and he would be awful for the mta. but i have to admit i'm not ranking cuomo largely because it would make him so mad if he loses

November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM

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Phineas

@phineas.bsky.social

New awareness campaign

November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM

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Tommy Siegel

@tommysiegel.bsky.social

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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Ahhhhh

@nerdjpg.com

“Perhaps in capitalist society you can use whatever method of treatment that seems appropriate, but in socialist society we should use theoretically grounded methods.”

medical treatment. For medicine to be "Soviet," in this view, required physicians to use modern laboratory science to understand objectively how the body worked and thus how to treat it. This was most clearly articulated by Stepan Pavlenko, a prominent Soviet Ministry of Health official, who declared that he was shocked by the lack of scientific rigor at the meeting:
Perhaps in capitalist society you can use whatever method of treatment that seems appropriate, but in socialist society we should use theoretically grounded methods. That is the essence of Pavlovian doctrine. If we don't follow this rule we end up taking the capitalist position, that is, eclecticism, not scientific medicine. To bring into our socialist society unfounded methods and moreover methods that are extreme, harsh methods—this is absolutely unacceptable. 141

October 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM

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Jon Bois

@jonbois.bsky.social

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October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Citations Needed

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October 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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@nerdjpg.com

58 years ago Che was executed

Take some time to learn about him and read him today

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War

www.marxists.org/archive/guev...

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated."
Che Guevara

Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.
Che Guevara
(GUERRILLA WARFARE - CHAPTER 1. 1960)

October 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape

@breakify.bsky.social

Quick question: What's the Hannibal Directive, and why did the IDF murder so many Israelis on Oct 7?

October 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Eli

@elindur.at.app.wafrn.net

"This is a fucking madhouse. You need message discipline. You need to be professional, for god's sake. When you write posts on a social media platform that you run, those aren't posts, they're company comms. Sorry. You can't be a mod and a poster at the same time."

Bravo, well fucking said!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Oct 5

"Why is antagonizing the existing bluesky userbase harmful to bluesky inc's goals?

It feels odd to even have to answer this question"
azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

azhdarchid.com

October 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM

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News Eye

@newseye.bsky.social

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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original flavor Otter Poppa

@peezkyweezky.bsky.social

Stephen Miller is what happens when liberals scold people for punching nazis

October 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM

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McSweeney's

@mcsweeneys.net

"First, videos that suck are the future. If I could make a video that sucks this much in one hour, imagine how hard I could make something suck in two hours, or even three."

I Used AI to Make a Video That Sucks

I used AI to make a video that sucks. It is bad. It is boring. But I made it in under an hour. And now it is my entire personality. To some, my AI-...

buff.ly

October 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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Kristen Wixx

@kristenwixx.bsky.social

Meowdy, partner.

October 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM

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The Associated Press

@apnews.com

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Hobo Joe

@hobojoe.bsky.social

jay really is the reincarnation of lowtax, wow

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 1

my favorite fruit is mangosteen

October 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Hobo Joe

@hobojoe.bsky.social

Hey, @why.bsky.team why are you disabling quotes on your incredibly gross post that defends banning Palestinians asking for help?

@why.bsky.team post "Yeah I don't care where you're from, spamming is spamming", in response to another post saying that gazans aren't "immune to the TOS".

October 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM

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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

Greta Thunberg from aboard the Alma, one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

(about 30 minutes ago, more or less)

www.instagram.com/reel/DPRvnS0...

October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

Sophia reporting from the Conscience

Both Italy and Spain have withdrawn their ships, abandoning the Global Sumud Flotilla to be intercepted by the Israelis

October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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Ahhhhh

@nerdjpg.com

An adjacent point is also made really well in the Jakarta method.

You don’t want to finally get to the point of the masses being agitated for communism and then everyone brutally dies because you didn’t follow the winning revolutionary examples.

Many of the movements that lost deeply regret it

The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement.
Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren't paying close attention to what happened in Gua-temala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world's largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious con-sequences.
This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America.
When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolu-tion; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask:
"Who was right?"
In Guatemala, was it Arbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more dis-ciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party?
Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead.
They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right.
Aidit's unarmed party didn't survive. Allende's democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington.

October 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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Teddy Ruxpin SVU

@teddyruxpinsvu.bsky.social

I've been reading 'If we Burn' and thus far he points to massive political and protest movements that were explicitly non-hierarchical and leaderless and how they absolutely failed. A non-hierarchical movement facing a hierarchical force will fail. That's why all successful revolutions were ML.

October 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM